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Chalabi Tamara - Late For Tea At The Deer Palace The Lost Dreams Of My Iraqi Family - Paperback
Chalabi Tamara - Late For Tea At The Deer Palace The Lost Dreams Of My Iraqi Family - Paperback
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Description: It's an admirable endeavor to have Iraq addressed by someone who is in so many ways able to approach it from two worlds . Tamara Chalabi has the stuff in every sense that is needful to undertake this. Christopher Hitchens In the tradition of Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Bhutto Benazir's Reconciliation comes Tamara Chalabi's unique memoir of returning to her family's homeland Iraq. In this epic story of one daughter's journey through the annals of her family's tumultuous history Chalabi's powerful voice and piercing vision illuminate her country and its people as never before. Just ten days after Baghdad's fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile finally entering the homeland she d known only through stories and her own imagination. Investigating four generations of her family's history at the forefront of Iraqi society Chalabi offers a rich portrait of Middle Eastern life and a provocative look at a lost Iraq. Unforgettable characters provide glimpses of the end of the Ottoman Empire the birth of the Iraqi state the flowering of the Paris of the Middle East and Iraq's descent into chaos. At once intimate and magisterial Chalabi's memoir of return and reclamation vividly captures the rich history of a country shattered by war and a family that has never forgotten its past.
Title: Late For Tea At The Deer Palace The Lost Dreams Of My Iraqi Family
Author(s): Chalabi Tamara
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061240409
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/31/2012
Description: It's an admirable endeavor to have Iraq addressed by someone who is in so many ways able to approach it from two worlds . Tamara Chalabi has the stuff in every sense that is needful to undertake this. Christopher Hitchens In the tradition of Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Bhutto Benazir's Reconciliation comes Tamara Chalabi's unique memoir of returning to her family's homeland Iraq. In this epic story of one daughter's journey through the annals of her family's tumultuous history Chalabi's powerful voice and piercing vision illuminate her country and its people as never before. Just ten days after Baghdad's fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile finally entering the homeland she d known only through stories and her own imagination. Investigating four generations of her family's history at the forefront of Iraqi society Chalabi offers a rich portrait of Middle Eastern life and a provocative look at a lost Iraq. Unforgettable characters provide glimpses of the end of the Ottoman Empire the birth of the Iraqi state the flowering of the Paris of the Middle East and Iraq's descent into chaos. At once intimate and magisterial Chalabi's memoir of return and reclamation vividly captures the rich history of a country shattered by war and a family that has never forgotten its past.
Title: Late For Tea At The Deer Palace The Lost Dreams Of My Iraqi Family
Author(s): Chalabi Tamara
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061240409
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/31/2012